Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1956, the inspector of police at Truro tele- phoned to say that three men were in a small dinghy at King Harry Ferry in the River Fal. The dinghy was rapidly rilling with water, the men were clutching a navigational buoy, and the weather was very bad. At seven o'clock the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare put out.

There was a very rough sea, a strong southerly gale was blowing, and the tide was flooding. Twenty minutes later the inspector of police telephoned from a house on the bank of the river to say that the three men were grad- ually becoming exhausted. The life- boat reached the men at 7.45 and hercrew lifted them aboard the life-boat.

The men were members of the crew of the motor vessel Charlton Star, which was lying at anchor in the River Fal, and the life-boat transferred them to her. She then returned to her station, arriving at nine o'clock. The men had apparently been trying to board the Charlton Star from the shore, when they had got into difficulties.—Re- wards to the crew, £10 10s.; reward to the helper on shore, 12s..